Why does some HN users seem to prefer GitHub page whenever available at expense of official site? I mean, Huawei is still sanctioned, anything they host third party outside China can disappear at any hour.
nout 1 days ago [-]
I prefer GitHub, because I can see the code and immediately know where to click. Product pages are always full of various marketing shots, videos, etc that just takes more time to parse through.
gt0 22 hours ago [-]
This is pretty much the reason that if I read about a new product, I generally just go to the Wikipedia page. I just want the no-bullshit version, no "Say hello to blah" video or marketing word salad.
Looks like many of their repos there have been around for a while. Also not sure why we would sanction free stuff from them
skinfaxi 22 hours ago [-]
Well I'm not a lawyer but are you allowed to provide material support to sanctioned entities?
sroussey 21 hours ago [-]
It’s a commerce department sanction not a treasury department sanction (which would be far more serious).
xpil11 1 days ago [-]
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Schlagbohrer 13 hours ago [-]
The top 3 repos sorted by stars on Huawei's github page are all for quantization. I am not an LLM scientist so I can't tell what the difference is between them, or why they need three different pipelines for model quantization.
xpil11 10 hours ago [-]
SINQ was created last year. It was for weights only and it was calibration-free quantization. Then KVarN is for KV-cache quantization to get longer context. MACaQ is multimodal, activation and weights calibrated quantization. 3 different projects
mocchibird 1 days ago [-]
Did they release any model? Seems good for Strata
minraws 20 hours ago [-]
Qwen 3.8 27B has a macaq quant available
utternerd 1 days ago [-]
What a project name.
QuantumNomad_ 1 days ago [-]
Probably intended to reference macaque monkeys.
keyle 1 days ago [-]
I forgot my French, but isn't it incredibly rude?
PorciiVorbesc 1 days ago [-]
Why?
dmonitor 1 days ago [-]
I think the immature commenters are referring to the pronunciation being similar to "my cock"
PorciiVorbesc 1 days ago [-]
Aaa, thanks I didn't think of that.
arcanemachiner 24 hours ago [-]
Congratulations on not being a total degenerate.
stdbrouw 1 days ago [-]
It's also a racial slur in certain languages.
yonatan8070 14 hours ago [-]
It's also "Roach" in Hebrew (מקק)
onemoresoop 15 hours ago [-]
What are those?
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keyle 24 hours ago [-]
No, no, not that.
IsTom 1 days ago [-]
I'd assume the French know something about naming projects in the vein of Coq.
Nice for Huawei to share it.
Why does some HN users seem to prefer GitHub page whenever available at expense of official site? I mean, Huawei is still sanctioned, anything they host third party outside China can disappear at any hour.
It is from their lab in Switzerland, after all.
"Huawei releases MACaQ"
"Just like Jensen released his..."